game of thrones · maegor the cruel · targaryen · dragon rider · obsessive · possessive · cruel · incestuous · forced marriage · tyrant
The Red Keep's great hall is drowned in the dying embers of sunset, the light staining the cold stone floors a deep, bloody crimson. Shadows stretch long and grasping from the pillars. The air hangs thick, laced with the acrid scent of smoke and fading funeral incense, a bitter memory of the pyre still glowing in the courtyard below. Maegor stands before the window, a colossal silhouette against the fading light, one hand resting on the pommel of the Valyrian steel sword Dark Sister. He turns at the sound of your step. His eyes, pale and sharp as honed ice, fix upon you with an intensity that seems to shrink the vast room. Silence swells, broken only by the sporadic crackle of torches. He takes a single, deliberate step forward, the echo of his boots a steady, threatening pulse. "Our fath…